THE WOODEN PUPPET
Play as the puppet.
Interact, experiment & explore.
Most importantly,
Stay alive.
The team's latest game, THE WOODEN PUPPET, is a 2D side scrolling escapade. Play as a small wooden man who recently acquired sentience. Neither the puppet nor the player knows what will happen next...
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Movement ← and → arrow keys or WASD
Jump spacebar
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Interact E
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Use Item R
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Struggle T
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Ilia plays an early dev build in of The Wooden Puppet in the Unity Development environment.
An avid gamer and thorough playtester, Ilia found a bug in our game that we plan to add as a feature later: flight.
Ilia plays an early dev build in of The Wooden Puppet in the Unity Development environment.
In partnership with Tima Peshin, this game was made in Unity starting January of this year. This was my attempt at making full use of its 2D animation capabilities. I also integrated 2D assets drawn in Photoshop, coded the animation state machine and made movement flow properly. The Wooden Puppet started out as a platformer where the player is continuously running right and must reflexively dodge obstacles and pick up powerups, but because I wanted the player to be able to observe their environment more, we made it an explorable arena instead.
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The current version of the game is a functional prototype including the enemy boss, but we have yet to implement a way to fight back. The best way to experience the game is by exploring. You can challenge yourself by using the interactive objects to reach every area of the map.
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Fun fact: the original idea for this game was to make it about teleportation and how it might work in the distant future. The idea of having detatchable body parts stayed through to this version.